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Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Venus193 Date: October 9, 2019, 7:00 am
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Just saw this article and thought it would be of interest here:
HTML https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/10/office-lunch-theft-scourge-no-solution.html
It's criminal that this is now necessary, but whoever
invented/marketed this will probably make a fortune.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Rose Red Date: October 9, 2019, 7:17 am
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There's a thread in Ask A Manager a few days ago. Lots of
interesting stories. Lunch thief is sure a hot topic. I guess
it's because we all have a story, from minimum wage to high
powered jobs.
If my lunch gets frequency stolen, I'd probably invest or come
up with a locking bag too.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Soop Date: October 9, 2019, 8:06 am
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I'm lucky to be in an office where people are respectful of
other people's food. That said, I rarely put my lunch in the
fridge, mostly because I forget and by the time I remember it's
lunch time. Or in some cases, it's food that is better warmer
than fridge temperature, such as salad or a sandwich.
Years ago, when I started at my current office, we were allowed
(within reason) to have juice and pop from the fridge in the
exec kitchen. That ended when they caught someone taking bags of
it home for a party. Now the pop and juice is only for execs or
for meetings. There's always someone who has to ruin it for
others.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Kimberami Date: October 9, 2019, 8:15 am
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I'm more concerned about someone cleaning out the fridge than
someone stealing my food. I bring an insulated bag from home. It
is easy to stash in a drawer.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: RubyCat Date: October 9, 2019, 8:39 am
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[quote author=Soop link=topic=1359.msg40045#msg40045
date=1570626376]
I'm lucky to be in an office where people are respectful of
other people's food. That said, I rarely put my lunch in the
fridge, mostly because I forget and by the time I remember it's
lunch time. Or in some cases, it's food that is better warmer
than fridge temperature, such as salad or a sandwich.
Years ago, when I started at my current office, we were allowed
(within reason) to have juice and pop from the fridge in the
exec kitchen. That ended when they caught someone taking bags of
it home for a party. Now the pop and juice is only for execs or
for meetings. There's always someone who has to ruin it for
others.
[/quote]
What is wrong with people!!! I used to work at a place where
one of the women would bring in really nice baked goods or
sometimes even a casserole. She got fed up and stopped doing it
because one of the other women would call her daughter (who did
not work there) to come in. She would swoop in and use our
paper cups and lids to pack up all the food and take it home
before most people got any. I would not have believed it until
I saw it. I just don't get it.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Aleko Date: October 10, 2019, 1:52 am
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Mostly my office was pretty good in that respect: but from time
to time, with multiple reorganisations, we would have different
departments or even people from a totally different site using
our kitchen, and then we'd have outbreaks of fridge theft. Once
I went to the fridge for my lunch and found that someone had
taken my pre-packed sandwich out of my lunch box, taken a big
bite out of the middle, evidently said 'Huh, I don't like this',
put it back in the pack, closed up the packaging neatly and put
the box back in its original place in the fridge.
It was the putting it all back that got me. I mean, if you
decide you don't like the taste of the food you've stolen, it
would be logical to throw it in the bin; or what the heck, since
you're misbehaving anyway, to just throw the despised snack down
on the worktop and walk out leaving it there. What was the point
of trying to make my lunchbox look as though it hadn't been
touched? Did they somehow think that when I went to eat my lunch
- it really looked like a cartoon of 'sandwich with a bite out
of it' - I would somehow not notice? Or did they feel that
stealing 'just one little bite' was a lesser crime than eating
the whole sandwich, because surely I could eat the rest of it?
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Gladly Date: October 10, 2019, 5:02 am
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??? ??? ???
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Rose Red Date: October 10, 2019, 6:45 am
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I told this story before. Someone discovered a thief drank her
coconut water and refilled the bottle with tap water.
Seriously?! They couldn't just throw the bottle away or even
leave the empty bottle in the fridge?
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Codewoman Date: October 10, 2019, 8:45 am
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I worked with a woman who had a nose for free food. Any
department had food for any event, she was there. She was famous
for this throughout the company. At one point we threw a baby
shower at work for a coworker and she had the gall to say
"Anyone who wants to come should chip in for the cake. I'm sick
of people mooching food around here." I just about fell off my
chair. I didn't respond because I was so flabbergasted. I just
stared at her until our co-host said she thought that would be a
bad idea.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: TeamBhakta Date: October 10, 2019, 9:15 am
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One day I brought lunch to work in a plastic grocery bag.
Someone went snooping around, found where I keep my zippered
tote bag, dumped out the contents of the grocery bag into the
tote & left the tote sitting unzipped on the floor >:(
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